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by mdavidn 702 days ago
Reading the user's profile information _is_ the delegated action. OAuth providers were already doing this prior to OIDC but in incompatible ways. OIDC standardized how that information is requested and returned.
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No, the whole point of OIDC is that permission to read your profile is not semantically the same thing as authenticated sign-on.